PopMech traveled to California this weekend for the Bay Area Maker Faire. We found enormous robotic hands, B-52 ejector seat chairs, soccer-playing bots, and more.

Walking Pod

Walking Pod

Scott Parenteau built this creepy metal crawly over four months leading up to last year's Burning Man. The Walking Pod has two 90-volt, 1/2-hp electric motors driving its legs. Inside the pod there's also a backup generator to recharge them. That comes in handy when Parenteau camps out in the beast. "It's a mobile RV with legs," he says.

B-52 Ejector Seat Wheelchair

B-52 Ejector Seat Wheelchair

Inspired by people bound to a wheelchair but who refused to give up on hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities they love, Lance Greathouse of Phoenix, Ariz., builds rugged chairs with tough wheels and suspensions, then gives them away. This one is designed from an ejector seat that actually ejected from a B-52. Greathouse bought it at a flea market for $150. The side guns will shoot fire, by the way.